The Morning After: Wednesday, December 13th 2017

Warlords of Draenor: Everything we know about Garrisons

During the World of Warcraft Raids, Gameplay, Questing, and More panel, Garrisons were explained in detail.

All garrisons will come with four starting buildings:

Town Hall: where you interact with your followers and conduct business in your garrison

Mine

Farm

Fishing shack

Garrisons start off with some plots into which other buildings can be placed. There are small, medium and large plots. Once all of the plots are filled, the next tier of plots will open up to be built upon up to three tiers.

The Small buildings are

Alchemy Lab

Smithy

Enchanter's Study

Engineering Works

Scribe's Office

Salvage Yard

Storehouse

Tailoring studio

Jewelcrafting Gallery

The Tannery

All of the profession buildings are small. Assigning followers to those buildings will give you access to the corresponding professions, even if you don't have those professions on your character. Note: Garrisons are character bound and phased for that character, like the current farm in Pandaria.

The Medium buildings are

Pet Stable

Trading Post

Lumber Mill

Barn

Inn: where you can pick up new followers

The large buildings are

Barracks

Infirmary

Armory

Stable

Academy

Mage tower

Buildings can be upgraded through several levels. You will be able to find blueprints out in the rest of the world which can be used to upgrade buildings. Buildings can also have specializations which can be changed according to your needs. Changing a specialization will probably come with a cost.

Followers can be assigned to buildings and tasks within those buildings. There are also missions that followers can be sent on. The UI is such that you select the activity, assign up to five followers and then select the mission from within that activity.

The mission activities are garrison specific content. Followers will not be completing quests for the player. The activities include:

Quest: Used to level up followers, though high level quests have a chance to earn loot for your character

Scenario: Takes longer than quests, but has a higher chance for loot

Dungeon: Guaranteed to earn player loot, but take longer and are harder. Dungeons require five followers

Raid: Raids take days to complete. They unlock when at least ten followers get to level 100. Transmog missions for lower raids will sometimes become available.